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lasting impetus by the wise initiation of a
much-abused man, Charles II., who founded
the Royal Society of London, and also the
Royal Observatory of Greeenwich, where he
established Flamsteed as first Astronomer
Royal, especially for lunar and stellar ob-
servations likely to be useful for navigation.
At the same time the French Academy and
the Paris Observatory were founded. All
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